I wonder why we never win wars anymore?
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oh hai.
ena.
*laughs*
Wow…what is happening? What is up with that?
it’s a room full of plebes at the us naval academy… looks like they’re sitting in the basketball stadium listening to a lecture… it’s tough when you only get 3 hours of sleep a night…
Bet it’s right after lunch, too. When I was significantly sleep-deprived in law school, it was the early afternoon classes that would find me drooling on the desk.
my guess was it’s before a morning class or something, something where the instructor isn’t present. I can’t imagine them doing that with an instructor in the room, otherwise they’d be sitting at attention.
This is not a class. It is at the basketball arena (Memorial Hall). They were having some sort of brief to the whole plebe class.
Yeah, I really don’t see the funny here. Catching a few Zs when you have the time is pretty much required skill in the armed forces of any country, throughout history.
Uh, “catching a few Zs when you have the time”? I would not call DURING CLASS “when you have the time”. Dear god, I wonder what lesson they’re sleeping through? Ethics?
THEY’RE NOT IN A CLASS ROOM… this is the gymnasium / meeting hall… they’re probably watching a movie…
On sexual education.
you should see the navy’s latest contraceptive…
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they’re called BCGs [link]
LMAO I didn’t know the Navy called them that too.
BCGs?
Birth Control Glasses — military issues anti-f*cking devices.
My dad always called them CMFM glasses (catch me, f*ck me). I think irony was supposed to be at work with that acronym.
Oh GOD I hated those things when I was in Air Force Basic Training
If you’ve never slept in an auditorium or lecture hall, you must not have a college education. I don’t know anyone who made it through school without falling asleep in at least one absurdly boring lecture hall. Cut these guys and gals a break, especially the cute blonde…
*raises hand*
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Nope. Sorry. Never did.
Not that I didn’t want to on occasion …
Gunner…
NOT SURE WHY THEY WOULD TEACH ART HISTORY TO THE MILITARY…
And I’m not sure why you think they are….or why you’re yelling.
I think they were waiting for then-pResident Bush to arrive and give a speech.
Political blowhard gasses have knocked them out. Better than nerve gas.
The hypnosis session is weeding out those with the right stuff for a military career.
You, miss – yes, you on the aisle – I’m sorry: please leave now.
LOL
Actually, it is in the basketball gym/auditorium. It’s most likely an evening brief (right after dinner) presented by Ms. Hart (the Naval Academy’s etiquette instructor) over things such as how to set a table correctly, how to sit when at a formal dining event, when to clap and when not to, and also how to address official guests with the proper titles. Last time I checked, knowing that you should use the outermost fork first when at a formal dinner wasn’t helpful in the battlefield. By the way, ask any of these midshipmen how many hours of sleep they get per week. They have a packed daily schedule learning skills that WILL be useful in war. Leave your political biases where they belong – in the garbage – and know the facts! Oh and the midshipman in the middle with the two yellow stripes on his left sleeve is not a plebe (a freshman), he’s a second-class (a junior).
they all look like children. and it makes me want to wrap them up in blankies
true. didn’t see his stripes…
first
Frederick Valentich disappeared, supposedly as a result of UFO activity, on the 21st of October 1978…
Oooooooooh, did they give him an anal probe?
Well they couldn’t find him… Or his plane… [LINK]
According to my count at the moment, this writer who claimed it/he/she was
“First” was actually the 6th or 7th responder.
To you whose limited imaginations & vocabularies include only the word “first” at the moments when you’ve not YET seen other comments listed:
Please realize that the operative word is always “yet.”
Try to write something clever, or at least praising of the photo & its caption, so that:
(1) if you ARE first you MAY be praised not only for your speed but the quality of your thought;
(2) you don’t get caught claiming “first” in 6th place because of the way the website, or your Internet connection, operates in that hour or two.
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Second
JK!
Oh, but look~!
He’s saying his name~! Isn’t it cute~!
Let’s give him a cookie before we kick him out the door into the street.
Double dawg dares you to try it, missy!
It is my opinion that the comments sections of these blogs would be vastly improved if every post claiming, commending, complaining, or otherwise discussing “first” were removed.
Ok.
*Removes techphets post*
::LOL:: I’ve gotten here just as something’s posted, popped in a comment (never “first!” though), and then watched as people from other time zones posted considerably later than me and had their posts inserted before mine, making me look like a copycat idiot ^^
Wow. Spongebob Jerkface here seems to forget that these men and women are in the armed forces. Do you really want your open heart surgeon sleeping through Anesthesia Techniques?
And I am intrigued by your powers of omniscence. How did you know that no one here has been a member of the armed forces? You must be very smart.
Or very full of it.
so are you saying that you were in the military?
Are you saying he’s not been?
I really do get tired of the whole Starship Trooper – this give weight to my opinion that I was dumb enough to get shot at for an idiot puppetmaster…
i don’t know the guy from adam so i’m curious as to where he basis his opinion from… those who have never been in the military seem to have quite a few opinions on how best to run military training and operations… remember the lol with the soldier brandishing a weapon in front of the little kid?
Or not brandishing, but checking it at a safe distance from civilians, depending on your POV
exactly my point…
I don’t remember that, link please?
If any passing person could have a bomb straped to their chest I think you wold point a gun at them too. But dude, if you havn’t been there you really don’t have and right to judge those who have.
Reading comprehension fail. ubr is on your side, dude.
I wouldn’t be worried about my surgeon sleeping through his Anesthesia Technique class… as long as the actual asestesiologist was awake during that class I’m good.
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If you can sit, sit, if you can lean, lean, if you can sleep… sleep.
Evidently, Al Quaeda (spelling fail) has mastered the art of covertly deploying canisters of sleeping gas.
The one female soldier has mastered the art of painting her eyelids so as to get away with falling asleep.
Evidently, vladimitator (appalling flail) has mustered the art of deploying others to correct his spelling.
I’m curious. At what point do the future officers of the military get held to the same standards that the rest of us follow.
One would think we would hold our military officers to higher standards of behavior, not lower.
Ummm, I think what he’s trying to say is:
Not worshiping at the ground of anyone in uniform = Pinko Commie America Hater
lol, so you never fell asleep durring a class that you thought was as boring as watching paint dry? Come on, don’t be a hypocrit. I fall asleep in College Math all the time becuase I can’t understand a word the teacher is saying and its easier to teach it to myself later then sit and be confused.
No, I haven’t. Even if one person falls asleep, it’s not a dozen people at the same time…
This picture was taken over a year ago when President Bush came to speak at the Naval Academy. We were all required to wake up at around 0430 and head to alumni hall where the speech was being given. We then had to wait around for 2 to 3 hours until the President arrived. The picture was taken during the waiting period when everyone was trying to catch up on sleep because we all had to go to class right after the speech.
*Sigh*
Have some apostrophes, drunk person. ””””””””””””””””””
once we started publicizing our wars.. once the media started getting ahold of video and pictures of our soldiers in vietnam and the war… thats when we started losing..
I’ll overlook that. I’m sure you wouldn’t put up views like that when you’re sober…
well i really wasnt terribly worried about being grammatically correct… i mean this is the internet.. as long as i get my point across why does it matter how many apostrophes or commas i use
A “little”?
Bumping this to the top, as it actually has the relevant info.
Finally! Someone I can agree with!
Ur slacking off during nap time!
i am a mid, so i am in this exact situation regularly. in our command, if you aren’t at attention during briefs, you are called out to perform emi (extra-military instruction).
USNA is MUCH more rigorous than NROTC programs, and these are USNA mids. cut them some slack because i doubt you who hate the military have done or will do anything remotely as challenging as leading men into battle. you may find our presence unnecessary; but that’s actually irrelevant.
GO NAVY
BEAT ARMY
Not like our academy ever actually puts up a fight…damn West Pointers have that element of uselessness too
Thanks for that! I concur..
I could be wrong but, hasn’t Army bead Navy the last several years in a row?
Beat! Beat! Damn you Firefox!
I know the Army team lost from 2002 to at least 2006. I watched the 06 game in Afgahnistan it was a sad day for us soldiers.
In a lot of sports? Ya.
In the single highly publicised national event? No, we’ve gotten our asses beat so many times in a row I’ve stopped counting.
the navy handed the army a huge beating this year… and i was in vegas to watch it too…
haha not like that they won’t
I don’t think anyone here finds your presence unnecessary. Even liberals like me can have family in the military, you know. As I said up above, catching a cat nap when appropriate has been an important military skill as long as there have been soldiers. And your instructors aren’t going to let you nap when it isn’t appropriate, are they? The way I understand it, the fact that no one’s ripping these mids a new one is proof that napping is condoned in this situation.
Ummm, even liberals like me have liberal members of their immediate family in the military.
I should clarify and say that servicemen do not automatically equal conservative. There are liberal soldiers, they just tend to keep their mouths shut because they’re in the minority.
That would be true.. in my day, we had blanket parties for the dang libruls.. (j/k)
*YAWN*
(Get. Over. It. Regards, the rest of the world.)
“You who hate the military”??? Are all Navy mids this butthurt or was it your turn in the barrel this week?
Son, if you don’t get a hold of yourself and learn a little detachment, you are going to wash out. Life has its absurd moments and you will be part of them; if you clench your arsehole this tight for all of them, you’re going to die of bowel obstruction.
Learn to laugh at yourself a little and you’ll realize that not everyone is laughing at you after all.
“Are all Navy mids this butthurt or was it your turn in the barrel this week?”
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I see you’ve heard some of the same Navy jokes I have.
*snort*
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Not all are true.. remember, there’s the Marines as well.
Charlie was in the Army, he taught me to view all branches with equal amounts of scorn and pity… although he especially hates the Air Force.
haha the chair force…
I really feel for those people…sleeping en masse is usually a sign that exhaustion is abound. I get plenty of sleep, don’t have any sources of significant exhaustion, and still find it hard to stay awake during some lectures….couldn’t imagine doing it on the amount they supposedly got. But who knows, unless they were there?
All I have to say is this is another reason why West Point > USNA.
Ha! We still have the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy, though.
Since Vietnam, what war have we lost so far? As I recall we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait in ’91, captured him and held free elections in more recent years, and Afghanistan is still being sorted out. Man, some people just WANT us to lose…
You might chalk up to the “fuzziness” of our recent wars, in which the outcome, that is, who won or lost, was not easily determined. Even if they were clear cut victories, you still have those idiots that will claim otherwise.
Actually, we failed to win in Korea as well, though at least we haven’t yet lost there. We’ll see soon if Hillary can negotiate an actual armistice there.
I love Hil, I have great faith in her ability to out crazy Kim Jong Il.
Well considering it’s a bunch of Navy cadets… no surprise.
all I gotta say is Out of Annapolis and…
GO ARMY!
BEAT NAVY!
tis better to be cooked alive on the severn then freeze to death in upstate new york…
Since phil heard the phrase “leftist toolbags” and couldn’t wait to try it out.
I dunno Jane, my hearing must be failing me, all I heard was WHARGARBLE…
Well, I admit, all I could really make out was leftist toolbags before my hearing started to fail as well.
Jane, how else do you expect left-handed carpenters to carry their tools?
Well, I see what you’re saying but I just don’t think there are that many of them to support the market. I mean, it’s just not cost effective.
Well, see right there, Jane! We lefties are so discriminated against. Do you know I had to pay twice as much for a left handed hammer. And don’t get me started on left handed nails. I’m gonna go out and wreak havoc with my left handed hacksaw.
Yay squiddies!
I feel their pain, it’s the same at USAFA. Inane briefings that have absolutely nothing to do with us that they expect to pay rapt attention to. ><
my favorites were always the ones on semaphore and signal flags…
Word.
Maybe that one that is “awake” just killed all the rest of them. She looks kinda mad with a hint of satisfaction, and they look…well, kinda dead.
Maybe we don’t win wars anymore because we can’t understand basic things like grammar. A statement should not have a question mark at the end of the sentence.
b/c dumbass liberals wanna pull us out
b/c dumbass conservatives wanna keep sending these kids to die
I want to be sent to my death.
A picture is worth a thousand words… and a million assumptions.
These kids are being judged before being known.
Many people who don’t understand what exhaustion and pushing themselves to the limit is like automatically assume that the act of sleeping anywhere but a bed is lazy and unacceptable. I wonder if those people visualize combat stopping for 8 hours a day while soldiers sleep.
“What time are you waking up for the battle tomorrow Fred” asks Private Ryan as he sets his alarm clock.
Let’s ignore the fact that these people put themselves in a position where they will help ensure that other Americans can continue to comfortably sleep in their beds.
Too bad its not practical and ethical to require people to walk in each other’s shoes before judging each other. Sure would clear up a lot of things in this world.
Is it possible to just look at the picture and laugh? Honestly, I don’t care what’s actually going on. On the surface, it’s a lol.
SERIOUSLY. Fighting over this one didn’t even occur to me.
Oh-em-gee, seriously. Perhaps some of you may have noticed the lol in the title of this here website? None of these pictures are in any sense “accurate”…they’re just here to laugh at. Make with the laughter and stop shoving overzealous political agendas at people who want to laugh at meaningless stuff.
Campers, the thing is, in the military, or in virtually any other high speed, high stress, low drag environment, folks learn how to catnap. And you can bet that they weren’t doing this during a class.
I’ve heard folks snoring while standing at attention in formation, while marching, and seen ‘em immediately snap to when their surroundings changed.
In general, it’s the left who think we’re losing in Iraq. The right believe that we’re winning. (for the love of god, no one argue over whether we are or not- that’s so old.) So, the comment itself- “we never win wars anymore” identifies the captioner as left-leaning. And *cough* totallyignorantonthetopicofmilitarystrategy- *cough*. Ahem.
You can’t “win” an occupation.
Oh really? What about the postwar occupation of Germany and Italy during World War Two? As far as i know, that was an occupation. And it worked. Do research.
It wouldn’t be as boring if they just went back to the old lectures:
Enemy? Y/N.
If Y, then shoot at it until it dies.
If N, don’t.
End of symposium.
Gun fodder?
Looks like Mids falling asleep at a basketball game. Too bad they couldn’t be doing hw, or something more productive (like sleeping in their own beds). The pic really has nothing to do with wars or the capability of a Mid…must’ve been captioned by a liberal.
I could have sworn the entire point of these sites was to take pictures out of context?
We were, in fact, waiting for a speech by Bush. They’d gotten us out of bed at 0300 to process us (metal detectors, etc) and hadn’t fed us breakfast. We then sat for upwards of two hours waiting for POTUS to arrive. Naptime it was!
And we were in the gym, not a class room.
have you ever won?
When my husband was in training for the military he said they were so sleep deprived they used to doze off in class. If they did that they had to stand so that they would stay awake. I think this is kind of cute. I also saw a photo of all of the platoon sleeping in a field in the rain waiting to be picked up after some training haha. I am assuming it’s probably similar in the tiring aspects for the Americans
ARBUSTO! Win. Exactly. The point. Everyone should just STFU. I don’t even know why there IS the ability to comment on these things – the comments add nothing but fail.
Jeez.
So leave then, and don’t let the door hit you on your brain on the way out.